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The Sports Xchange Loyola (Maryland) 89, UMBC 83 (OT) Loyola (Maryland) senior guard Dylon Cormier scored 34 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and the Greyhounds rallied from a second-half deficit to beat Maryland-Baltimore County 89-83 in overtime Wednesday at the RAC Arena in Catonsville, Md. Cormier sealed the win with a layup to make it 89-81 with 17 seconds left in overtime as the Greyhounds improved to 4-0. Forward Malik Garner scored...

The temperature outside the Des Moines Greyhound bus terminal on a February morning fell to a dangerously frigid 17 degrees below zero. But the bus driver who dropped off Ankur Singh and 10 other passengers so that they could wait for a connecting motorcoach, knowing that it would be an hour before the terminal would open, didn't seem to care. "He had absolutely no sympathy at all," says Singh, a documentary filmmaker who lives in Bloomington, Ill. "He was completely apathetic. " Singh's experience offers a glimpse into a corner of the travel industry that receives practically no coverage or concern from the travel media: the conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of people who travel by bus. After Singh's motorcoach, which originated in Minneapolis, left them at the station, the passengers huddled together outside the closed building.

The Sports Xchange By Mike Shalin, The Sports Xchange Manhattan 55, Loyola-Maryland 52 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Leading wire to wire, sixth-seeded Manhattan held off a furious Loyola charge and defeated the Greyhounds 55-52 to advance to the semifinals of the MAAC tournament in a game that started on Saturday night and ended on Sunday morning. The Jaspers (13-17) moved on to face No. 7 Fairfield, which upset No. 2 Rider before the third-seeded Greyhounds, the defending tournament champions, also went down.

HEBDEN BRIDGE (Reuters) - A bundle of skin and bones, Alice did not seem to be a lucky greyhound at first glance. Alice was bred to race but was not fast enough. She was used for hare coursing but failed at that too. So Alice was discarded outside the English city of Doncaster, abandoned like many unsuccessful greyhounds in Britain's multi-million dollar industry that is in decline as the popularity of watching dogs race around a track wanes. She would probably have died of starvation or been hit by a car had it not been for a volunteer who picked up the shivering dog from the streets and took her to a sanctuary in 2011.

The Sports Xchange EditorsNote: Eds: Resends with scoreline Loyola 69, Tennessee State 67 Loyola-Maryland rallied from a big second-half deficit, defeating Tennessee State 69-67 in a BracketBusters game Saturday at the Gentry Center. The win gave the Greyhounds back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time in school history. Senior forward Erik Etherly scored 26 points to lead Loyola-Maryland (20-9, 11-5 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference), which handed Tennessee State its first home loss of the season.

The Sports Xchange Canisius 91, Loyola (Maryland) 79 Junior center Jordan Heath recorded his second double-double of the season, leading Canisius to a 91-79 victory over Loyola (Maryland) on Thursday at the Koessler Athletic Center in Buffalo, N.Y. Heath posted 21 points, 11 rebounds and seven blocked shots as Canisius (14-8, 7-4 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) withstood a late rally to win for the fourth time in five games. All five starters scored in double figures for the Golden Griffins, who are now tied with Loyola (15-8, 7-4)